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Bumping this thread with a bit more Curve love. No reason, just revisiting on Youtube. Here are some highlights: Chinese Burn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s0qbqZeoIk Ten Little Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ProMC3LB4PM Horror Head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7_ufLazwM Fait Accompli (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW94HUWC8WY Stunning production by Alan Moulder. Toni Halliday will haunt your inadequate goonish dreams....
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 Effortpost alert Apologies if this band has come up before but… Cable were a four-piece guitar-based band from Derby, England who flourished briefly in the late 90s, only to be killed off by contractual disputes that cut them down just as they seemed to have reached – if not the threshold of fame – the threshold of a viable and productive career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_(British_band) Matt Bagguley (vocals/guitar), Darius Hinks (guitar), Pete Darrington (bass), Neil Cooper (drums, up to 95), Richie Mills (drums 95-99). Cable’s music is characterised as fast-tempo indie rock, featuring looped guitar-riffs backed by a brutally tight rhythm section. Bagguley’s vocals had two modes: deadpan/laconic and shouty. I’ve heard the style compared to Fugazi’s and Rocket From The Crypt, though if you’ve got other comparisons I’d like to hear them. They released 3 albums and a live EP and although they only functioned early 90s-99, an evolution is detectable. Their music is long out of print but most of it is on Youtube. Youtube user Virusinsideus is one of the band members, I think. Channel #Cable has 55 videos. Their first short LP was Downlift the Uptrodden (1995), featuring the Jon Mayall parody sleeve photo (and amusing back cover in the same style). It featured Cable’s most intense and fastest tracks, including the standout singles: Blindman, Seventy and high-octane Murdering Spree. The most aggressive track is Oubliette, final LP track and also what they used to close out early live sets. (I was calling for Oubliette when they played live in Camden, not realising that they reserved that for the end. Perhaps they thought I was heckling for them to finish up.) The album got a lot of airplay on BBC Radio 1 and they recorded 4 Peel Sessions over the years. The follow-up LP When Animals Attack (1997) is noticeably less urgent and more radio-friendly, while still being fast tempo, riff-looped rock. It follows on from the 1996 single/EP Whisper Firing Line. My personal favourite track from the album is Colder Climate, especially the second part. The success of the LP and the less raw sound resulted in Cable’s music being used in a Sprite TV commercial. Although that was on Youtube it now seems to have disappeared. Instead you can enjoy their self-mocking The (We Did The Music For The Sprite Ad) Blues. A live EP recorded in Brixton Prison, London, was followed by what turned out to be their last LP Sub-Lingual (1999). This is distinctly more relaxed and accessible, with a singalong chorus for the eponymous track and a music video for the poppy single Arthur Walker. The hooks are still there – more catchy than nagging – with an infectious enthusiasm apparent, esp. in Bagguley’s vocals At this point contractual issues drove a wedge between band and management. Unable to release new music and even perform live (they had to perform some live gigs under the name Sparklehorse (?)), the band were trapped in legal limbo and eventually disbanded. The most frustrating thing – apart from being unable to produce new material – was that a few glimpses of the last recordings show that the old intensity and aggressive riffs were present in unreleased tracks. Midget, One for the Ladies and Untitled Instrumental are all tracks recorded around the time of Sub-lingual that are better than the released material. Sadly, those are strictly  territory and not on Youtube.Apart from one or two gigs in 2012, the band have never reformed and are now scattered to the winds but seem to be on good terms. If I was a millionaire and could hire any band for a private gig, it would these guys. Really exciting live, loads of energy and seemed on the edge of great new material… Apologies for the music press guff stuff but I love these guys and they are well worth a listen. Edit: This band is not connected to the American band Cable. To avoid getting the wrong band, go to "virusinsideus" and "#cable" on Youtube. Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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teethgrinder posted:Can't wait to check out... The name sounded familiar, then reading your description, I recognise Neil Cooper from Therapy?. Yep, Cooper now drums for Therapy? Links Blindman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCWSfejZ4BI Seventy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofTDK5jrBjk Murdering Spree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V8a4t7Ige0 Colder Climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1xObGq-1A The (We Did The Music For The Sprite Ad) Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsry6NnlZQ Arthur Walker (music video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr9pdp6b9U
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The best band you've never heard of! Well, no not quite. Good(ish) and very unknown. Elevate were a British band from the mid-90s. They released one album and disappeared without trace. The album has turned up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLOzzpp01_c (+ Song list with time stamps.) They perhaps aren't exactly shoegaze but indie-guitar-drone and I think that fits this thread. The vocals have a Mark E Smith quality and the guitars are abrasive. Most of the album is too one-tempo to be really satisfying. Of the up-tempo numbers Slowspeed to Harbour (#1) and DNA Mix (#11) are the best examples. Of the slower ones Oils (#9) and the steel-guitar 24 Nights (#12) are the most dreamy/mellow. But if you listen to only one track, make it The Resin World (#6) which is amazing - druggy lyrics, dreamy, twangy bass, weird treble guitar. It'll give you shivers. Check it out. Your ears will thank you. 
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